MUNDANE MYSTERIES:  Does gum really stay in your stomach forever if you swallow it?

MUNDANE MYSTERIES: Does gum really stay in your stomach forever if you swallow it?

We’ve all heard this as kids… “don’t swallow your gum, it will stay in your stomach forever!” But is that actually true? According to this guy… not really. As an autopsy technician he says the only gum he has come across in the stomach has been recently chewed or swallowed. So even though it doesn’t…

TELL ME SOMETHING GOOD: Payphone helps find lost child

TELL ME SOMETHING GOOD: Payphone helps find lost child

With every year that goes by you see less and less payphones. But every once in a while you see one around somewhere. Sometimes they even come in handy to help people. Like this story in Minneapolis last week, about this kid who got lost and ended up coming across a payphone that somehow still worked. He…

MUNDANE MYSTERIES: Why is it called a softball if it’s not soft?

MUNDANE MYSTERIES: Why is it called a softball if it’s not soft?

If you ever played softball or got hit by one you know that they don’t really live up to the name. They’re actually pretty hard. So why call them softballs? Like most things it starts way back in history with a wacky story… In 1887, some alumni of both Harvard and Yale were hanging out…

I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN THAT!  The average teenage girl does this 150 times a year?

I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN THAT! The average teenage girl does this 150 times a year?

All week I have tickets to LANY at the Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater Tuesday, August 16. It’s a 5-4-3-2-1 week so all the tickets will be in first five rows starting Monday with the 5th row, all the way to Friday being the 1st row. Play every day at 4pm to win. Would you have known the answer for today’s…

I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN THAT! 76% of women do this everyday before they do anything else

I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN THAT! 76% of women do this everyday before they do anything else

All week I have tickets to LANY at the Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater Tuesday, August 16. It’s a 5-4-3-2-1 week so all the tickets will be in first five rows starting Monday with the 5th row, all the way to Friday being the 1st row. Play every day at 4pm to win. Would you have known the answer for today’s…